A Machine Learning Based Morphological Classification of 14,245 Radio AGNs Selected From The Best-Heckman Sample

Abstract

We present a morphological classification of 14,245 radio active galactic nuclei (AGNs) into six types, i.e., typical Fanaroff--Riley Class I / II (FRI/II), FRI/II-like bent-tailed, X-shaped radio galaxy, and ringlike radio galaxy, by designing a convolutional neural network (CNN) based autoencoder, namely MCRGNet, and applying it to a labeled radio galaxy (LRG) sample containing 1442 AGNs and an unlabeled radio galaxy (unLRG) sample containing 14,245 unlabeled AGNs selected from the Best--Heckman sample. We train MCRGNet and implement the classification task by a three-step strategy, i.e., pre-training, fine-tuning, and classification, which combines both unsupervised and supervised learnings. A four-layer dichotomous tree is designed to classify the radio AGNs, which leads to a significantly better performance than the direct six-type classification. On the LRG sample, our MCRGNet achieves a total precision of $\sim 93\%$ and an averaged sensitivity of $\sim 87\%$, which are better than those obtained in previous works. On the unLRG sample, whose labels have been human-inspected, the neural network achieves a total precision of $\sim 80\%$. Also, using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) to calculate the $r$-band absolute magnitude ($M_{\mathrm{opt}}$) and using the flux densities to calculate the radio luminosity ($L_{\mathrm{radio}}$), we find that the distributions of the unLRG sources on the $L_{\mathrm{radio}}$--$M_{\mathrm{opt}}$ plane do not show an apparent redshift evolution and could confirm with a sufficiently large sample that there could not exist an abrupt separation between FRIs and FRIIs as reported in some previous works.

arXiv commentAccepted by ApJS. The full table of the catalog and code for our network can be downloaded from https://github.com/myinxd/mcrgnet

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